Top Goalscorers from the finalist teams include Seattle's Osvaldo
Alonso with 4 goals and Sammy Ochoa with 3, while teammates Fredy
Montero and Andy Rose have a pair of Cup goals. For Sporting KC, Soony
Saad, C.J. Sapong, and Graham Zusi all have two Cup goals apiece...

A LOOK AROUND THE LOCAL NEWS

Charles Gooch at the Kansas City Star with his preview:

*notes that only 8,000 saw the 2004 Cup final. Tonight is sold-out (20,000ish).

*KC has many players with injury and their status is uncertain: Myers and Sapong are probable; Peterson and Convey are doubtful; Roger Espinoza may be hurt too much from his Olympics clavicle injury to play...

*Worries about the obvious Seattle threats, Eddie Johnson and Fredy Montero, and notes that Mauro Rosales is an 'SKC killer'...

1 Comments:

Kind of funny to hear all the complaints Sigi and the Seattle fans have about the refs, when they'd never have gotten this far without getting lots of controversial calls in their favor. Their quarterfinal against the Earthquakes was a thugfest and their nutcase EJ didn't even get carded for his cowardly suckerpunch on our reserve left back at the closing whistle. Can't wait for Seattle to come to San Jose two days from now, fatigued and beaten - after our week off, payback for that thuggisg game, with superior soccer, will be sweet.